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- GLC#
- GLC02437.00271-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- April 12, 1776
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to unknown
- Place Written
- Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 18.8 cm, Width: 15.9 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Orders an officer to proceed to Norwich, Connecticut with powder and ammunition. Notes that the officer has a warrant to impress teams of animals if necessary. A note on the verso records numerical quantities of unnamed items being transferred from Cambridge, Massachusetts to various New England towns. Knox was then moving southward toward New York, planning coastal defenses against the British navy for Rhode Island and Connecticut in the process.
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